Bhubaneswar, Oct 5: Taking steps toward to immobilize the Japanese Encephalitis disease, pigpens will come up at Malkangiri’s villages to insulate infected pigs, informed Arti Ahuja, Odisha Health Secretary on Wednesday.
She further informed that, Japanese Encephalitis has been transmitted from pigs to mosquitoes and then to humans as pigs are the host of the disease and hence said that the selling of pigs has been prohibited.
From the collected 21 pigs’ blood samples, 14 turn out as positive and it showed that around 66 per cent of the pigs have been infected with the disease. Pigpens would be constructed by the district administration 2.5-3 km away from the villages under MGNEREGA and it will be guarded by the villagers who will be appointed for this, Ahuja informed.
Multi-pronged strategies has been initiated to take control of the culex mosquitos and fogging in all the affected villages has been carried out which led to a drop down of the intensity of mosquitoes by 400 times, she further added.
